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Jewish soldiers guard the 700 Israeli settlers living in the center of Hebron. Under international law, building settlements in Hebron and other West Bank territories is illegal (Courtesy of Mamoun Wazwaz/Maan Images)

Building settlements in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem is considered illegal under international law, but Israel nonetheless announced in August that it has approved construction plans for more than 2,000 new settler homes in these forbidden territories.